Domain reseller

The Internet is an ever-growing platform that furnishes new possibilities to make money online. One of these possibilities is to be a domain reseller and sell domain names to end clients, making profit from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. Thousands of domain names are registered every day, and there are millions of currently active domain names, so this is a blooming marketing niche that you can become engaged in.

TLDs and SLDs

A domain comprises two parts - a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD.

Generic and Country-Code TLDs

The Top-Level Domains can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the most widely used domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, whereas the country-code top-level domain names include two-character abbreviations that symbolize each country. Examples of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. Each Top-Level Domain, whether it is a gTLD or a country-code Top-Level Domain, has a Registry - an organization that deals with the registrations and sets the requirements that each given TLD may impose, among them the duration of the registration term or the citizenship of the registrant. A number of Registrar corporations operate under the Registry. These are the corporations that actually sell the domain name to clients and administer all domain resource records.

Gain Cash From Offering Domains

Multiple Registrars have reseller programs that allow people to make cash from offering domain names to end users. If you sign up for such a program, you can initiate your very own personal Internet business. Commonly, a domain name will be cheaper if it is registered via a reseller rather than if it is purchased straight from the Registrar by an end client. The cause is that resellers can reach more persons in regional districts or countries where the Registrar may not be popular at all. This means more sales for the Registrar, so both sides will cash in on that. Your revenue will be the difference between the price that the customer pays and the one that the Registrar levies for the domain name registration.

Offer Top-Level Domain Names Under Your Very Own Personal Brand

When you subscribe to a domain reseller program, you will have a web hosting CP where you can choose the prices for the individual TLDs that the Registrar provides. Most companies also offer billing management software and web skins for your web shop, and the automation of the whole procedure coupled with the towering demand for domain names render the domain reseller market so tempting. You will either have a turn-key website and utilize the Registrar system to sell domain names, or they will give you access to their API (Application Programming Interface) so that you can create your very own website and order form. Generally, you have the opportunity to decide between the two alternatives, so it all revolves around how experienced you are in these matters. As a domain name reseller, you will work under your own brand name and not on behalf of the Registrar's.

Gain Money From Reselling Web Site Hosting Plans Too

A proper addition to your domain reseller business would be to sell web hosting solutions as well. Thereby, you can offer a package deal to clients who desire to build their web site and require both a domain name and a web site hosting account. Particular firms have such options. With 'ResellersPanel', for example, you can order a Virtual Server or a dedicated server, and they will also offer you a domain name reseller account and free invoice software to bill your clients. You can then sell top-level domain names and shared web hosting plans to clients, and since they provide plenty of different domain extensions, you will be able to provide domain and hosting services to customers from all around the world.